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MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 51, Issue 3-4, Pages 356-362Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2012.03.031
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Immune signaling; Receptor clustering; Ligand valency; LPSL; Lipid A; Micelles; Toll-like receptor; TLR-4; Surface-bound; MHC; T cell receptor
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- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)/U.S. Army Research Office [W911NF-12-C-0003]
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Cell surface receptors mediate many cellular responses in health and disease. Recent progress in our understanding of how ligand binding to the extracellular domains of receptors triggers intracellular signaling has underlined the role of ligand-promoted receptor clustering following by oligomerization of the cytoplasmic signaling domains. The clustering suggests the requirement of ligand multivalency and is especially important for triggering receptors involved in innate and adaptive immune responses. However, although numerous studies have established that multivalent, but not monovalent, ligands induce receptor-mediated signal transduction, considerable uncertainty still remains. Here, I hypothesize that monovalent ligands that have been reported to trigger immune receptors in vitro are not necessarily truly monovalent. This is illustrated by focusing on studies of signal transduction by toll-like receptor-4 and T cell receptor. By generalizing this concept to a variety of lipid and protein ligands, one would propose an alternative interpretation of apparent ligand monovalency in other receptor activation studies as well. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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